Hello Friends updated with new templates, Win Phone 7 support on the horizon

Hello Friends is an app that's available for Windows Phone 8 owners who wish to customise their lockscreens with a collage of friend photos. The arrangement of photos are refreshed periodically in the background, leading to an effective change every so often. The app has now been bumped and includes a number of improvements.

It's a similar concept that's utilised by Microsoft in the People Hub tile, which shows contact photos in a continuously updated montage. So what's new in version two?

The user is now able to pick specific contacts that should be used for collages

The app provides an option to adjust the refresh time interval

5 new templates

Improvements of the overall experience and several bug fixes

As well as the update, the developer plans to release a version for Windows Phone 7.x early January. So those with older hardware will be able to enjoy such functionality - it's not currently known how this will be achieved, but we look forward to seeing the app available for previous versions of Windows Phone.

Well, they are on nokia servers, so I believe it's really legit. I had no problems while installing it, nor after. You just need to follow the steps correctly. The only problem is that you lose all your data, so, it's necessary to make a backup.

Just contacted the developer and asked for a weather add-on. Got a reply within a few minutes and was told that the features weather status and custom notes are already planned for an upcoming update :-) That means we will be able to add them as overlays for more customization.